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Carrier Air Wing Carrier Air Wing - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Carrier Air Wing - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

This is a side-scrolling shooter with power-ups and special weapons. You can buy the special weapons and things like energy and shields at the beginning of a stage. You gain money by shooting enemies.

Carrier Air Wing was produced by Capcom in 1990.

Capcom released 228 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Carrier Air Wing was produced include: Buster Bros., Capcom Baseball, Code Name: Viper, Rally 2011 Led Storm, Adventure Quiz Capcom World, 1941: Counter Attack, Chiki Chiki Boys, Adventure Quiz 2 - Hatena? No Dai-Bouken, Mega Man 3, and Magic Sword

Carrier Air Wing - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Carrier Air Wing
Developer Capcom
Year 1990
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7287
Class Wide Release
Genre Air Combat
Monitor
Conversion Class Capcom CPS JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings

Carrier Air Wing Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [AttackSpecial Weapon]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
PCB Carrier Air Wing PCB Image

Game Introduction

You can choose from three different aircraft the F-14, the F-18 or the A6-E, each with their own special abilities. The F-14 has more air firepower, the A6-E has better ground weapons and the F-18 has a better mix of the two. Your main weapon fires straight ahead only, but you can get special weapons that range from homing missiles to ground napalm. Most weapons can be bought at the beginning of a level but quite often you can pick them up during a level. You can buy extra energy -- called fuel -- or a shield. You only get one plane, so if the energy bar runs out, your game ends.

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Trivia

The Japanese version is called U.S. Navy. The text is 99 percent English except for the characters that appear while selecting your plane just after continuing.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Carrier Air Wing Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 78 known instances of this machine owned by Carrier Air Wing collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 67 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Carrier Air Wing machine for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Carrier Air Wing circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Carrier Air Wing boards sets.

This game ranks a 27 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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